Wanted and X-Files Hit DVD This Week
It’s a simple enough recipe. Throw some wicked Matrix-like special effects, lots of gunplay and Angelina Jolie into a film and make over $100 million. Oh, that is unless you call it Tomb Raider.
Wanted is an adaptation of a hit comic by Mark Millar and J.G Jones. The movie stars the aforementioned Jolie, James McAvoy and Morgan Freeman. McAvoy is a put upon office geek who suddenly finds out he has superpowers allowing him to become a badass assassin. Jolie and Freeman are his guides into the world of superpowered killing sprees.
The plot doesn’t matter much more than that, …read more
Voting Some Movies Off The Island
March 14, 2008 by brian
Wow, no one wants to see the Incredible Hulk movie according to our poll. Technically, that may just mean they want to see Iron Man, Dark Knight and Indiana Jones more.
But nonetheless Speed Racer, Hulk, Wall-E, Wanted and Hancock are all outta here. I can’t blame SFUniverse fans. The fact that somebody considered making Speed Racer into a film scares me immensely. Although not as much as nobody caring about Wanted. Have we finally reached our limit about movies with Angelina Jolie wielding huge guns? I hope not, that would mean that as a society, we’re a little dead …read more


